1081. To rocke with: cp. i. 452.
1110. if sche him daunger make, ‘if she resist his desire’: see note on i. 2443.
1123. menable: see note on i. 1067.
1132. er it be falle And hath &c.; that is, ‘until it be so come that it hath,’ &c.
1152. scholden: note the plural verb after ‘I forth with my litel Sone’: cp. 736.
1163. Trivet adds ‘qar issit l’apelerent les Sessoneis’ f. 35 vo.
1164. for noght he preide &c., ‘for none of his prayers to be told,’ &c.
1173. The stop after ‘Romeward’ is on the authority of F, with which A agrees. We can say either, ‘He was coming from Barbarie towards Rome, and was going home,’ or ‘He was coming from Barbarie, and was going home towards Rome’; but the latter perhaps is the more natural.
1191. made sche no chiere. This must mean here, ‘she gave no outward sign of her thought.’ Usually ‘to make cheer’ means to be cheerful.
1243. what child that were, subjunctive in indirect question: cp. 1943, iii. 708, 771, &c. See note on Prol. 41.